That’s true, but it’s also the case that the accused is often convicted in the media long before the case ever goes to trial. Think of the UVA or Duke lacrosse cases. Heavily publicized false allegations can have very unpleasant consequences for the accused.

No. It looks like, sarcasm aside, Billy is actually right and Yanga-Mbiwa was trying to provoke a physical response that would get Messi cautioned or sent off.

One learns something new about how to possibly not get killed by a wrathful Nature every day.

If your survival ever depends on your ability to outrun a hippopotamus and you’re name isn’t Usain Bolt, you are in very, very big trouble.

More specifically, why do they always think you like them or want them when you don’t?

I think part of the alleged “safety advantage” of bare-knuckle is that it’s so brutal the fight stops sooner. Gloves are primarily for protected the fighters’ own hands, not their opponents heads, but it does cushion blows slightly, meaning a fighter has to take more punches to break through the adrenaline rush or for…

Nah, it was supposed to be long and drawn out. Kraft and Goodell could have settled this amicably via back channels and then announced it as laying down the hammer on the Pats, but the NFL set it up almost perfectly to be another stupid sports controversy and the Pats did both sides a solid by complaining about it.…

The policy against gay leaders was announced (or, to hear BSA tell it, “clarified”) in my last year as a Scout and our ASM, whom I’m pretty sure was gay, resigned two weeks later, citing “family issues”. The following year the church that sponsored our troop convinced him to come back the next year, though. For a…

My bigger problem with that passage is the implication that a rear naked choke is somehow emblematic of the capacity of MMA fighters to hurt people. If you’re a lot stronger than someone and they aren’t trained in martial arts, a regular old “grab their neck with your hands” choke is just as dangerous.

No one was dragged for “launching” (funny way of spelling “buying”) Tidal. They were dragged for offering a more expensive, less-bang-for-the-buck streaming service and expecting people to bite anyway because it had big names attached to it.

What a crock of shit. If you think exploitive economics is a new thing in China you must know literally nothing, or literally nothing true, about Chinese history.

Maybe it’s because nobody wants an NHL team?

WWE basically tried to put Cena over because he was a dependable guy and did what he was told, and they wanted to reward that. But Cena isn’t really that compelling of a guy outside of his work ethic so it doesn’t work. The only way might be to embrace the “Cena sucks” narrative as a kind of reverse psychology…

I used to work the 11pm to 7am shift at a convenience store. At 7am, when I got off, there was one bar in town that was open and sometimes I’d have a couple of beers with my co-workers. There as always a group of guys, mostly in construction, who were having their first beer, vodka, or whiskey of the day before…

Batman would find a way to beat Superman, mentally, physically, or psychologically.

The idea of a Batman vs Superman fight is stupid to begin with. Superman could kill Batman from orbit by dropping a ceramic bowl on Bruce Wayne’s head without ever coming within, literally, a thousand miles of him.

Fun fact! The scientific name of the western lowland gorilla is, in fact, Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

The comments on this post prove pretty conclusively that Bucks fans are the biggest douchebags in American sports.

Several years ago, I spent a year abroad in Florence, trying desperately not to be recognized as an American.

It’s a valid philosophical question, whether bad calls that don’t change anything are really bad calls.